now used in configure.py, requires python >= 2.4. See the mailing list thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg170511.html
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as. Otherwise, LyX will not be able to run a number of tests. Note
that users can run these tests manually with Tools>Reconfigure.
- o Python 2.3 or newer installed to be able to import older LyX files
+ o Python 2.4 or newer must be installed. Python is used for many
+ simple tasks that are executed by external scripts, such as the
+ automatic configuration step and the import of older LyX documents
with the lyx2lyx script (this script is called automatically when
opening a file). Python 3.0 or later is not supported.
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* Python:
- Python >= 2.6.0 is required to run scons, but Python >= 2.3.4 is used by
- lyx itself so the newer version is needed. Python is widely
- available on non-windows systems. Windows users can download and install
- python from http://www.python.org.
+ Python >= 2.6.0 is required to run scons, while LyX itself requires
+ Python >= 2.4.0 for scripts such as configure.py. Python is widely
+ available on non-windows systems. Windows users can download and
+ install python from http://www.python.org.
* SCons:
scons >= 1.1.0 is needed. You can either use a full system-wide scons
A decent LaTeX2e installation (e.g. TeX Live for Linux, MikTeX for
Windows).
- Python 2.3 or later to convert old LyX files and for helper scripts.
- Note 1: Python 2.3.4 or later is required for exporting LyX files
- to a pre-unicode format, as previous versions are affected by a bug
- about the normalization of unicode strings.
- Note 2: Python 2.4.0 or later is required for the clean_dvi.py script,
- which, however, is only used on Windows, where at least Python 2.6.0
- is anyway recommended.
+ Python 2.4 or later to convert old LyX files and for helper scripts.
+ Note 1: Python 2.4 or later is required due to the subprocess module.
+ Note 2: Python 2.6 or later is recommended on Windows.
Note 3: Python 3.0 or later is not supported.
How does the LyX version scheme work?